The year 2008 was a great one for Robert Downey, Jr. The same year he played Tony Stark in Iron Man he also played Kirk Lazarus, the black faced “method actor” in Tropic Thunder. Both were big hits, but it was Iron Man that had legions of acne-pocked fanboys clamoring for more of the villainous […]

The first full trailer of this summer’s upcoming Captain America film, The First Avenger, was released today. In case you weren’t prepared (which I’m thinking most of you are), there’s a windfall of Marvel superhero movies all coming out to set up the inevitable Avengers mega-blockbuster, and along with Thor this summer will belong to […]

I’ll be honest with you — I am NOT one of those people that delights in commercials showing babies acting like adults, or talking, or doing any of that bullshit. In fact I’ll admit I’m not a big fan of babies in general — I feel very frightened around their tender heads, like I’ll accidentally […]

Gotta say I’m pretty excited about this one. Jon Favreau absolutely killed it directing that first film — as far as comic book movies go, it would be almost impossible to beat his adaption of Iron Man. He nailed it in pitch, humor, characterization, everything. You can tell Favreau really knew the source material, which […]

. Of course I wanna love this movie, but it’s really hard to have faith. After the celluloid abortion that was X-Men:The Last Stand, I feel a bit like a latchkey kid: Does anybody really care? Is there any true love left in this cold world? Luckily, after Iron Man and of course the brilliant […]

I really had no intention of turning this into Giant Geek Who Grew Up In the 80s Watching Too Many Cartoons week, but I guess it’s that time of year when all this stuff comes out. Besides, after being so surprised by how good Iron Man was this week, and then seeing this Burke Williams-masseuse-looking […]

Due to the overwhelming Nerdocity of this site, I’m sure you all expected that I was standing in line at 10 pm last Thursday night, eagerly awaiting the midnight premier of Iron Man in my Magic Wizard Cap and trusty replica lightsaber. Truth of the matter is, I spent the entire weekend prepping for my […]